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Programming bootcamps and career hopping in 2025-26 with AI competition

r/codingbootcamp

u/Condition_Immediate wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

The majority of bootcamps im looking at have a no job no pay gaurantee type thing. Im currently at an SLE and i hate my circumstances and bootcamps have financial aid so they carrot dangling there is the idea i could get a job in 6 months instead of working some dead end job full

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Don't trust any job guarantee. There are a lot of bootcamps with job guarantees and while I've bumped into a dozen or two people who wanted refunds and got denied, I have yet to bump into someone who actually got the "job guarantee' refund. Illustrative examples like: \- despite a flawless record, you missed a phone call four months ago that was scheduled the day before so no refund \- you took too long to graduate, no refund \- 9 months ago, you failed the mid term twice before passing the third time, so no refund I truly believe if you meet the criteria that you'll get a refund, but it seems extremely hard to actually meet the criteria.